Figurative Language
"I have bigger fish to fry"
BONUS 100pts: What does it mean?
What is an idiom?
There are more important things to focus on or I have other priorities.
When Madam Lockton is described as horrified by Ruth’s illness, context clues show she feels this way.
What is shocked and afraid?
The main character of a story is called....
Chains is written from this point of view.
What is first person?
After Miss Mary Finch dies, Isabel and Ruth are sold to this family and taken to New York City.
Who are the Locktons?
Identify the following type of figurative language:
"Ruth stood there like a carved statue"
What is a simile?
In the sentence “Curzon spoke boldly about liberty,” the word liberty most nearly means this.
What is freedom?
This character is Isabel’s younger sister who suffers from epilepsy.
Who is Ruth?
Because the story is told from Isabel’s perspective, readers mostly know this type of information.
What are Isabel’s thoughts and feelings?
Isabel overhears a plan involving this important historical figures assassination.
Who is George Washington?
This type of figurative language gives inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
When Isabel says she kept the information “locked inside her head,” the phrase suggests she did this.
What is kept a secret?
This character believes Ruth’s illness is caused by evil and reacts with fear and violence instead of understanding.
Who is Madam Lockton?
This text structure is used when events are told in the order they happen.
What is chronological order or sequence?
Madam Lockton reacts with fear and violence when Ruth has this medical event.
What is an epileptic seizure?
Identify the following type of figurative language.
"The wings that could spirit us away were hidden in the master’s desk."
BONUS 100pts: What does it mean?
What is a metaphor?
Bonus: The keys hidden in the desk are the one thing that could get them out of the Locktons
Identify the meaning of the word pondered as used in the following sentence:
“I pondered this. Was he lying? Could I trust this strange boy filled with war and secrets? What would Mama do?”
To think carefully, especially before making a decision or coming to a conclusion
This character is the antagonist who mistreats Isabel and reacts violently to Ruth’s illness.
Who is Madam Lockton?
Because the story is told in first person, readers understand events mostly through this character’s perspective.
Who is Isabel?
Mr. Lockton want the men to agree to the plan in writing....
What is to protect himself if the plan is discovered?
Identify the following type of figurative language:
"The world turns upside down every day"
What is an idiom?
What is haste?
Isabel’s actions toward Ruth show this character trait most clearly.
What is loyalty or responsibility?
Madam Lockton believes Ruth is possessed, which directly causes this major event in the story.
What is Ruth being taken and sold?
Because Isabel warns Colonel Regan, the Patriots begin to act against Mr. Lockton. What does Mr. Lockton do, and this is the immediate result for Isabel and Ruth’s situation.
What is he flees New York, and the sisters lose the small protection his presence gave them?